Issue 5 – Spring 2019

THREE POEMS

TRANSACTION Waiting in line Whole Foods market, the cashier rings up my seven packs of...

Start with your skin//You’ve never liked the freckles on your hand or the sporadic scars that line...

SMOKE IN THE MOONLIGHT Aiden pulled the screen door. It dragged, sticking for a second...

THE REPRESENTATIVE downstairs she had a map with all pins in it. all the places, she explained,...

DEAD FLIES His eyes are two dead flies on the windowsill of my college dorm room. They refuse to...

STRANGE MEETINGS Sometimes we run into someone just for once in our lives and our bones refuse...

For the cake: 3 cups white flour 2 cups white sugar 1 cup butter 3 egg whites, beaten 1 teaspoon...

everlasting rounds, mountains that create breathable noise. we listen when we’re drunk, when our...

K Even with a broken arm The girl shoots a...

SEAT 23A This is your first flight. You are antsy and loud, crawling around the seat to...

PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT To be an artist in any sense or medium is to take what...